John Mackey

They see your success as their own success.

Those are true friends.

The other friends may not be your friends at all.

They may secretly be wanting you to fall and fail.

So you have to pay a lot of attention to be conscious.

It's like you need to have a little bit of sensitivity to envy.

If your friends envy you, they're probably not really true friends.

Yeah, I know, but you have to be discerning.

And the other time you know who your true friends are is when the bad times come.

Because your true friends really care about you, and they're down there in the gutter with you or in the hard times with you.

They're not secretly chortling, happy, oh, finally she got hers or he got his.

They're there, and you can tell.

You can tell they genuinely love you, and they care for you, and they want to help you.

Right.

So it's kind of interesting that the best of times and the worst of times is when our true friends reveal themselves.

One of the first things my dad taught me was the best capital you'll ever have in your business is the money that you retain from making money.

And that's so different than what the venture capitalists do today with these startups.

The venture capitalists are not necessarily your friends at all.

And they may not have your best interest at heart.

They're